Friday, March 29, 2013

Free VPN connection: OpenVPN on Ubuntu 12.04 with SecurityKISS

Came across SecurityKiss who offer 300MB per day VPN free.Setting up an account is easy, and then you need to get it going.1. Log into the client area and then click 'download' and then 'linux'.

This gets you a zip file with some files in it. So unzip2. Check if you have IP is set up:

sudo nano /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

it needs to be "1"and

sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf

add

net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1

at the bottom3. Install the Open VPN GUI

sudo apt-get install openvpn network-manager-openvpn

4. Start the network configuration, by clicking on the wireless symbol in the menu bar, dragging down and selecting "VPN Connections" > "Configure VPN" and then "Add"5. Select OpenVPN and then "create"

Make the gateway port 443andenable "Use a TCP connection"8. Click OK and then Save9. Then from the wireless / network connection icon you can select the new VPN connection. For me it takes about 13 seconds to connect

10. For bonus points you can monitor the sys log and see whats going on